Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site elsie.UUCP
Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!floyd!harpo!seismo!rlgvax!cvl!elsie!mark
From: mark@elsie.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: Destroying Unused Newsgroups: A Proposal
Message-ID: <258@elsie.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 23-Dec-83 08:52:25 EST
Article-I.D.: elsie.258
Posted: Fri Dec 23 08:52:25 1983
Date-Received: Sat, 24-Dec-83 10:54:21 EST
References: <185@cbneb.UUCP>
Organization: NIH-LCM, Bethesda, MD
Lines: 11

I agree that 2 time a week is too severe a threshold for the destruction of
a news group, however, lack of use IS a good reason for deletion.
Indeed, it is probably the only reason. Otherwise, in a few years,
the .newsrc file could grow toward infinity. Net.misc is a good place for
obscure subjects. If a newsgroup receives little use (say 12 articles/year
on a moving average so as not to delete seasonal groups) it should be
removed.
				..elsie!mark
-- 
UUCP:	decvax!harpo!seismo!rlgvax!cvl!elsie!mark
Phone:	(301) 496-5688